At Skillup, we are dedicated to transforming the HR tech landscape with innovative solutions that empower collaborators, managers, HR and companies to achieve their full potential. We’re passionate about creating user-centric experiences that seamlessly blend intuitive design with cutting-edge technology, including the integration of advanced AI-driven interfaces.

We are looking for a talented Design Engineer to join our team and collaborate closely with two senior Product Designers. In this role, you will be pivotal in shaping the future of Skillup’s user interfaces and user experiences, with a technical ownership on our design system. You will bridge the gap between design and engineering, bringing ideas to life through rapid prototyping and ensuring robust, scalable implementation. Finally, you will experiment with modern AI-enhanced UX paradigms rich input, intelligent suggestions, predictive assistance, smart search and previews.

Missions

• Work closely with our two senior product designers to conceptualize, prototype, and implement innovative UI/UX solutions.

• Own the technical implementation of our design system. You will enforce consistency by integrating the guidelines into the components, document it, and train our engineers on how to use it best.

• Explore, prototype, and implement cutting-edge AI-enhanced features such as suggestion systems, dynamic canvases, and real-time interactive previews.

• Act as a liaison between design and engineering teams, facilitating smooth transitions from design concepts and prototypes to fully functional products.

• Help designers create a monitoring strategy and provide tooling to feature teams so that they can measure and experiment where needed.

Background & experiences

• You have 6+ years of experience as a front-end engineer.

• You’ve worked extensively with React or a similar front-end library.

• You already built and owned proprietary design systems.

• You have your own vision of what a front-end software architecture should be.

  Who You Are

Experienced in front-end engineering, with solid skills in JavaScript, React, and CSS.

• Opiniated in quality attributes such as accessibility and performance.

• Experienced and comfortable managing and evolving design systems to support a good developer experience and consistency, as well as using commonly related tools like Storybook.

• Passionate about modern UI/UX, particularly enthusiastic about integrating AI capabilities into intuitive and engaging user experiences.

• Collaborative, communicative, and proactive in working cross-functionally with design and development teams.

• Experienced in prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Framer, Storybook) as well interested as the recent AI enhanced UX features (v0, Cursor, Windsurf…).

  ### Skillup is for you if

  • You like to build tools for and with other developers.

  • You want to work with designers and engineers.

  • You like prototyping and experimenting on innovative UXs.

  • You’re not afraid to dive into legacy code and to lead a plan to put it back to the state of the art.

    What We Offer

    • The opportunity to significantly influence the user experience of products impacting more than 150k users with multiple personas (collaborators, managers, trainers, HRs…)

    • A collaborative environment with talented designers and developers, where your ideas and creativity will directly shape the future of Skillup.

    • Weekly dedicated learning, via the O’Reilly training platform & other tools

    • Hybrid working: up to 3 days of remote per week

    • Offices located in Paris center (10th arrondissement, cour des petites écuries, lively district, close to transports and numerous restaurants).